Investigation: IBM signed a Β£54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, in July, despite a 2020 pledge to quit such work (Mark Wilding/The Verge)
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IBM promised to back off facial recognition β€” then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it
The UK deal has drawn fire from civil liberties groups.
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Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work
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Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 across Europe from October 1, instead offering Teams to enterprise for €24 per year (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
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Microsoft Tries to Ward Off EU Antitrust Probe into Teams App
Microsoft Corp. tried to ward off further European Union antitrust scrutiny of its Teams video-conferencing app by offering to split the program fr...
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Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 in Europe on October 1, discounting the suites by €24/year and selling Teams for €60/year
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NHTSA ordered Tesla in late July to provide data on "Elon mode" Autopilot configuration that eliminates prompts to drivers to keep hands on the steering wheel (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
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Tesla ordered by auto regulators to provide data on 'Elon mode' Autopilot configuration
Regulators want to know more about a configuration that eliminates a so-called "nag" that normally prompts owners to keep their hands on the steeri...
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In July 2023, the NHTSA ordered Tesla to provide data on Autopilot
By Lora Kolodny / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
A Pepe memecoin team member says three ex-colleagues stole about 16T Pepe tokens worth $15M from the project's multisig before selling them on crypto exchanges (James Hunt/The Block) https://www.theblock.co/post/247576/pepe-team-members-stole-15-million-from-multisig
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A Pepe memecoin team member says three former colleagues stole ~16T Pepe tokens worth $15M from the project
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US Treasury proposes new rules treating crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report crypto gains to the IRS, starting in 2026 (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/u-s-tackles-crypto-tax-mess-5a751679?mod=followamazon
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The US Treasury proposes new rules that would treat crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report gross proceeds to the IRS starting in 2026
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Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its highest tier "all the space you need" storage plan to 5TB, after some abused it to resell the storage and more (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
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Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change
Dropbox Inc., a provider of online data storage, is ending its unlimited option, saying a small handful of customers were using massive amounts of ...
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Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its “all the space you need” storage plan to 5TB, after some abused the tier by pooling storage, reselling, and more
By Brody Ford / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
An analysis finds 37 sites that are using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles, which first appeared in outlets like CNN, the NYT, and Reuters, without credit (NewsGuard)
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Plagiarism-Bot? How Low-Quality Websites Are Using AI to Deceptively Rewrite Content from Mainstream News Outlets
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An analysis finds 37 sites using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles that first appeared in outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and Reuters, without credit
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Investigation: despite scaling back in Russia in 2022, Binance continues to handle substantial ruble trading, helping clients evade sanctions via intermediaries (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/binance-cryptocurrency-russia-sanctions-ddb948c3?mod=djemalertNEWS
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Analysis: despite scaling back in Russia in 2022, Binance still handles substantial ruble trading volumes, helping clients evade US sanctions via intermediaries
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Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose shares dropped ~80% in the last two years, has been exploring options including a sale; stock jumps 15%+ (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cybersecurity-firm-sentinelone-explores-sale-sources-2023-08-21/
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Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; S jumps 15%+
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A notice from Maine's AG says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of "insider wrongdoing" (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
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Tesla Data Breach Blamed on β€˜Insider Wrongdoing’ Impacted 75,000
Tesla Inc.’s May data breach impacted more than 75,000 people, included employee-related records and was a result of β€œinsider wrongdoing,” ac...
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Maine
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